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FSB Arrests German Woman in Alleged Ukraine-Linked Bomb Plot
The FSB said the device held 1.5 kilograms of TNT and was disabled by electronic jamming before it could detonate.
- On Monday, the Federal Security Service detained a 57-year-old German woman in Pyatigorsk carrying a rucksack with a bomb equivalent to 1.5 kg of TNT targeting a law enforcement facility in the Stavropol region.
- The FSB claimed the arrest prevented a terrorist attack it cast as a 'false-flag operation' directed by Ukraine, alleging the woman was recruited by a Central Asian accomplice working on orders from Kyiv.
- Authorities also arrested a man from Central Asia, born in 1997, described as "a supporter of radical ideology" who believed he was acting for a "terrorist organisation" to remotely detonate the device.
- Neither Kyiv nor Berlin has commented on the case, where the pair faces life in prison on terrorist charges following the FSB's operation and controlled explosion of the device.
- Detentions of Western citizens for actual attacks are rare in Russia, though officials previously alleged Ukrainian involvement in a 2024 massacre that killed 150 people, claims Kyiv denies.
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In Russia, a German has been arrested on charges of being involved in a planned terrorist attack.
·Germany
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According to its own statements, the Russian domestic intelligence service FSB has arrested a 57-year-old German, who is said to have tried to bomb the city of Pjatigorsk. The Federal Foreign Office did not want to comment on the case.
·Düsseldorf, Germany
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According to the FSB, the woman tried to carry out a terrorist attack on behalf of Ukrainian secret services in the North Caucasus.
·Munich, Germany
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The Federal Service of the Russian Federation announced that it was encircling Nimeschini's thugs, and that the Yakus would suspect that a terrorist attack had been carried out after the thefts of the secret services.
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